California senator Kamala Harris and Vice President mike pence face off in the first and only Vice President ial debate. Were breaking down the highlights including a Heated Exchange on Climate Change and the california wild fires. The bay area weighs in and a look at how the pandemic has impacted tonights Vice President ial debate watch party. A sad day in San Francisco as a firefighter has died. The cooling trend continues with rain chances fading. Ill have the hour by hour look coming up. Abc 7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Announcer building a better bay area. The greatest failure of any president ial administration in the history of our country. From the very first day, President Donald Trump has put the health of america first. California senator Kamala Harris and Vice President mike pence go head to head in their first and only Vice President ial debate. Good evening. We have Live Team Coverage tonight with reaction from all around the bay area. Yes, first lets hear from abc 7 anchor liz kroits at what was said and left unsaid. Hi, oma. This was a 90 minute debate that truly felt like a debate unlike last weeks chaotic president ial debate. We could hear from both candidates on a wide range of issues, including once again the issue of Climate Change and the california wild fires. With plexiglass separating each candidate seated 12 feet apart, it was no surprise the first questions at the Vice President ial debate focused on coronavirus. Amid an outbreak at the white house senator Kamala Harris and Vice President mike pence sparred over the handling of the coronavirus. President donald trump did what no other president has done which is suspended travel from china. Clearly it hasnt worked when youre looking at over 210,000 dead bodies in our country. The focus covered the economy, abortion, and the supreme court, both candidates evading answers. One Heated Exchange came on the top k of Climate Change. The moderator asked whether the manmade Climate Change has made the wild fires more deadly. The climate is changing, but the issue is whats the cause and what do we do about it . There are no more hurricanes today than there were 100 years ago. Thank you. But many of the climate alarmists use hurricanes and wild fires thank you. To sell goods of a green new deal. Pence called for Forest Management and called out california governor gavin newsom. Governor newsom agreed weve got work on Forest Management. Newsom replied in real time on twitter. We have seen a pattern when this administration which is they dont believe in science. And joes plan is about saying were going to deal with it but were also going to create jobs. Donald trump when asked about the wild fires in california and the question was, you know, the science is telling us this. Do you know what donald trump said . Science doesnt know. These various facial expressions and reactions from harris, one of several moments that went viral throughout the night. Mr. Vice president , im speaking, im speak. Later, a apologigantic fly t land on pences head stole the show. Senator harris would not answer a question about packing the supreme court. Vice president pence dodged the question over abortion. Overall it was a civil debate. Both campaigns are happy with their candidates performances and each side is claiming victory. Ama and dan. Thank you so much. People around the bay area gathered for covid safe virtual watch parties as amanda dell castillo found there were strong opinions about who came out ahead. The covid19 pandemic not only altering the debate stage but changing civic engagement. An outdoor socially distant debate watch party. Kamala has been honest and forthright and i think that pence is kind of having a heart time justifying some of trumps moves. Elsewhere a move to be virtually, hosting viewers over zoom. Residents throwing their support behind senator Kamala Harris by defecting the performance of off Vice President mike pence. It was very clear that she addressed issues, relevant issues, and she was faced with a lot of mistruths. In San Francisco, viewers who laned on to mannys live stream mainly backing harris. Usually Vice President ial debates dont sway people, so all she needed to do was not lose. But depending pences demeanor after the debate with President Trump. It did seem calmer, more intelligent, more ready to answer questions. He pulled out facts. This would be the only time the two take the debate stage. Now, tonights debate had a much different tone than last weeks faceoff between the president ial candidates as you know. A chronicle insider and contributor says there was a marked difference between harris and pence. You know, mike pence used to be a talk show host, so he has the unflap able he had a lower demeanor. And he had an advantage because hes in lock step with the president. Kamala harris, we saw more emotion coming through. We saw her flustered at times. But also she was at a bit of a disadvantage because just a couple of months ago she was running against joe biden. So, who won tonights Vice President ial debate Kamala Harris or mike pence . Abc 7 news viewers have been weighing in all night and nearly 55 say harris won. Head to abc7news. Com and vote yourself. The Fact Checkers were again hard at work during the debate to find out which of the claims hold up. Head to abc7news. Com. In developing news, the white house covid19 outbreak has expanded. An internal government memo indicates 34 white house stafferers and other contacts have been infected in recent days. The white house says President Trump was back in the oval office six days after testing positive. Officials say the white house was taking precautions to stop the spread, however several white house aides were seen today interacting without masks. The assistant comen determinant of the marine corp. Has tested positive for coronavirus days after he and members of the joint chiefs of staff were at a pentagon leader with a coast guard leader who was infected. A staffer in the Governors Office and another state worker who works nearby tested positive for covid19. The department of Public Health is doing extensive contact tracing. Governor newsom has tested negative numerous times. One of San Franciscos finest died today after a tragic training accident. Jason cortez, who had been with the San FranciscoFire Department for 13 years was also a husband and father of 2. What went wrong with the training is under investigation, but today the priority was the department. J. R. Stone is live in the newsroom with more. Its been a sad day for hundreds of firefighters in San Francisco, a sad day for a wife who lost her husband, a sad day for two kids who lost their father. Hundreds of San Francisco firefighters lined up outside San FranciscoGeneral Hospital as the body of 42yearold firefighter jason cortez was carried out in a casket draped by the american flag. Today is a tragic day for the San FranciscoFire Department. Weve lost one of our family members in an accident. Crews tell us that accident happened around 10 00 a. M. Tuesday at this San FranciscoTraining Facility in the mission. Cal osha confirmed cortez fell three stories, causing severe head injuries resulting in his death. Im unable to say anything else about the accident other than it was tragic, absolutely tragic, and we are all heart broken. Cortez leaves behind a family. Hes a father of two children, a husband to an amazing wife. Reporter after the accident, cortezs wife could be seen walking out of the hospital side by side with their two children. For the past two years, cortez worked at station three in San Franciscos tender loin. Janine nickelson says its the busiest station in the united states. Chief nickelson says cortez was a 13year veteran who she personally knew, a man whose father was a firefighter and who had followed in his footsteps. He was just a really wonderful human being, always a straight up guy, hardworking, kind, just, you know, if i could clone him, you know, i would. Just a wonderful human being. Now, i did talk with a number of people who live across the street from the Training Facility. They told me they didnt hear anything out of the ordinary this morning, only saying they often see firefighters training on the ladder truck and the emergency stairs that go up seven stories. Certainly there will be an invs. Interrogation here. J. R. Stone, abc 7 news. J. R. , thank you. Other San Francisco fire stations found their ways to pay tribute today. This sign is outside of cortezs station number three made by the men and women of station 44. Abc 7 was there as the members of 44 passed the sign around and signed the back. They told us cortez was well loved. If you would like to pay tribute to firefighter cortez, we have a banch honoring him on our abc 7 news and twitter pages. You can then share it with your own message on your social pages. More to come accusations of illegal backfires being set to defend property against the glass fire. Dan noyes with exclusive video and investigation from the north bay. Helping fire victims rebuild, what people need to remember. Im meteorologist sandhya patel, a gray drizly start ahead tomorrow. Whos going to cool off more . And what are the prospects for rain. All thats ahead but first whats coming up on jimmy kimmel live. Tonight billy crystal, and all the fun from the Vice President ial debate next on jimmy kimmel live. 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The same humira you trust with less pain immediately following injection. If you cant afford your medicine, abbvie may be able to help. Exclusive video, private firefighters are under investigation for possibly setting illegal backfires. Dan noyes has been investigating in napa county and hiking with crews extinguishes hotspots in the glass fire. Reporter these illegal backfires can be very dangerous if private contractors dont inform the incident command post what theyre doing, other firefighters could be at risk. The iteam obtained this exclusive video from 4 00 friday, private firefighters hired by napa valley wineries detained by the chp and cal fire and suspected of setting illegal backfires. Its illegal for someone to set a backfire if they arent part of the incident command structure, correct . That is my understanding. It is illegal. Cal fire confirms an investigation is underway that could result in charges and arrests. Safety is a priority not only for the public but also our first sonders that are working these areas. Reporter backfires are an essential tool in combatting wild fires. This is the scene from swieger vineyards and winery last week. Crews used drip torches to seto small blazes. The owner of swieger vineyard showed me how that fire set saved his winery. We set the fire so it was burning downhill as the fire was coming uphill. Thats so important to get the greatest distance. The glass fire did destroy what used to be his parents house. And this years harvest is probably ruined by the smoke. But hes thankful it didnt claim more of his lifes work. We were up for 48 hours and all you could think about was lets fight it. Its a serious thing. I get it. To find out more about those private firefighters, i followed two crews from oregon putting out hotspots yesterday. Theyre working through a government contract. They also worry about freelance firefighters sometimes hired by the wun ris. Guys that throw a pick up truck together and a tank in the back, they dont have any training, they dont have insurance, they dont have workmans comp. They arent even an official business but they look like a firefighter. Jamie pickering told me if private contractors set fires without telling anyone, without calling in plans to incident command posts, that could endanger any firefighters who may be working nearby. When you get somebody whos running lone wolf, people get you are the had. Firefighters get killed. Ive been to enough firefighter funerals in my lifetime. I dont want to go to more. Reporter cal fire tells me the investigation should wrap up in the next day or two. For the iteam, dan noyes, abc 7 news. Tomorrow north bay leaders meet with fema to talk about federal assistance for recovery from the glass fire. The state has recovered a disaster declaration. If its approved grants will be able to homeowners and Business Owners who had to rebuild. Everyone save every receipt because you may qualify for the individual and buzz assistance if, in fact, that declaration does occur, especially in the near future. Save every receipt was the advice. The glass fire has burned more than 67,000 acres in sonoma and napa counties. It is 62 contained tonight. 1,536 structures have been destroyed but thats not a final figure. Thats one of the Things Holding up the declaration. The good news we can report is apparently the weather continues to change in our favor, ama. It certainly does. The air quality is still fiat as good as we would love it to be sandhya. Yeah, but that is going to be changing, the air quality will get better and dan and ama, the other thing is this weather pattern that were in which is cooler, higher humidity, is very favorable for the firefighters. And thats why the containment has gone up to just over 60 . Lets take a look at that air quality right now. Napa to fairfield, santa rosa, oakland to livermore. You will notice smoke from the Central Valley drifted into our area. San jose. Moderate from San Francisco to fremont and around the santa cruz area. Lets check out the smoke forecast and i think you will be happy to hear that things will be changing. So, yes, tomorrow morning its still smoky at 5 00 a. M. But notice the push of that smoke out of the region as we head towards friday and even into saturday and sunday. The blue is indicates less smoke across our region. Spare the air alert in effect through tomorrow. Until that happens we will not see improvement in air quality completely. So, tomorrow it is poor to moderate, friday, saturday, sunday we start to see good air quality. Netysn usy in thepacic. Row thi troisre thaoves leftover of former hurricane marie. This system here, it would be great if it would come in here and break rain but looks like its going to split in two and bypass us. Lets check out what storm is going to make it. This is something you dont want to see, amongst administer storm in the gulf of mexico. This is delta, wind of 100milesperhour expected to strengthen to category 3 as it makes landfall across the gulf coast region. Right now it looks like it has its eye set on louisiana. Heavy rain up to a foot, storm surge dangerous and rain continues to move to the northeast heading into the weekend. Live doppler 7 shows fog and clouds. Temperatures have dropped as we saw the cooling trend earlier as well. 50s, 60s, heres what greets you in the morning. Cloudy this morning with mist and drizzle. Cooling continues tomorrow. Slight chance of you showers saturday. Tomorrow afternoon, upper 50s to mid 70s. Cooler bay and inland. We are looking at our future track clouds and radar. Look at that first wave coming through. Its pretty much passing us, splitting in two. And that second wave will as well. Just a slight chance of a shower maybe friday night, saturday. Certainly some drizzle. 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What youre made of, were made for. A group of teachers in the east bay took part in a pro test today saying they refuse to go back to inperson lesson a. I caravan of cars rallied against resuming face to face classes. We know what happens. Its a sure way to spread covid, not only to the staff but also through the children to the families, to the whole community. Mark says the teach everys union voted yesterday against reopening schools. Teachers say they expect to find out more during the next weeks now abc 7 sports with chris alvarez. The oakland as save their season with a win against houston today. One loss, its all going to be over. Another 90 degree day in l. A. The as were playing in launch angeles. Going the other way and puts that baseball into the land of cutouts. Were all tied at 7. That was the 10th. Oakland added two more runs on sack flies. Here hendrikss. Hendrikss. Hend. Strikes out and there goes the bat. Hendricks, three scoreless innings. As win 97. There will be a game four tomorrow. Shoot, we live another day and thats as far as you take it. So, its going to be the same thing tomorrow. Hard fought game again for us today. These things dont seem to come easy. But weve got another day. Padres and dodgers game two, this was the Cody Bellinger show. Jumps on the first pitch in the show and it is a belly bomb. Sends it deep into the night. Fernando puts a charge into that one. Bellinger playing center field and this might be one of the plays of the year. Perfectly robs that 2run 2runn l. A. Hangs on 20 series league. Look whos back, Jimmy Garoppolo limited in practice today, working his way back from the jets. Whether he plays sunday depends how he looks and feels leading up to sunday in miami. If jenny cant go on sunday. Quakes and vancouver today, they go for three in a row. Christian espinoza, thats his first goal since the orlando tournament. Bangs it home for his second goal of the game. In there late, win 30. The quakes have won 3 try my 4 mini munchies with marinara or ranch. Back at jack in the box. Try my 4 mini munchies with marinara or ranch. Back at jack in the box. That is all for us tonight. Thank you so much for watching. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. We appreciate your time. And right now on Jimmy Kimmel Billy crystal. That were already closed due to the pandemic. So back to the Vice President ial debate and that fly that landed on the Vice President s head. It happened about ten minutes from the end of the event. The fly landed on pence and stayed there undisturbed for about two minutes. Flies have quite a recent political history. Four years ago a fly briefly landed on Hillary Clinton during a debate against now President Trump. And another fly harassed Mike Bloomberg during his dnc speech this year. The Biden Campaign is fundraising off last nights incident, saying pitch in 5 to help this campaign fly. Its also selling a truth over flies flyswatter on its campaign website. Twitter went nuts with this. They did. Its funny because i always say thats what we do. Theres a serious thing going and like we see a fly. Squirrel . Fly . Right. I will say though i was watching the debate and i looked away, so i didnt see the fly land on his head. I was like what is that . And then i could not look away. Then i went obviously to twitter and twitter told me what it was. Fact checking right there. Coming up a political round table on the top moments if the debate. First, the new reporting on President Trumps condition. Is he already immune to covid19 . Were asking our medical expert. Later in the mix the dress with the builtin mask. Youre watching world news now. Mix the dress with the builtin mask. Youre watching world news now